Ruth Schonthal (1924-2006
Ruth Schonthal (1924-2006
Born in 1924 Hamburg, Germany, died 2006). Comp. Conservatory Stern, Berlin. Liljefors, Stockholm, M.M. Ponce, Mexico, Paul Hindemith, Yale. Compositions for solo instruments, voice, chamber music, orchestra, ballets and opera. Published: Oxford, Hildegard, Sisra, C. Fischer, E. Schirmer, Fine Arts. LPs & CDs. Performed worldwide. Distributor: Fine Arts Music Co., Box 311, Wykagyl, NY 10804.
Final Asencion
Year: 1999
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
From the Life of a Pious Woman
Year: 1999
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Tristana
Year: 1999
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, piano, violin
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Comissioned by the Heidelberger Festival Ensamble; w/p 7-10-99.
Bells of Sarajevo
Year: 1997
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: For virtuoso clarinetists. Passages fingered with harmonics. Hauntingly evocative concert piece.
Jocasta
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 45'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: A post modern opera in 2 axts. Text by Helene Cicoux. Score for piano or synth. Commissioned by Voice and Vision, dire, by Marya Mazor.
Divertimenti for Diverse Instruments for Young Virtuosi
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind quartet
Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, clarinet, flute, horn
Description: 3 tpt, pn, 2 vln, vla, vc, drums For diverse groups of 2-4 students. Small pieces of 2-8 minutes. For grades 3-5.
String Quartet no. 3 (Holocaust in Memoriam)
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Anguish, and supplication expressed in multi-layered swirls of sound using the "Jewish" scale in bitonal ways; a last cry for help from God ending in dispair.
Wildunger Liederzyklus
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any medium voice, any voice, mezzo soprano, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Highly expressive, serious, challenging songs.
Fantasy - Variations on a Jewish Liturgical Theme
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: guitar
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Five mielismatic variations. Modified version of "Theme I".
Fantasy - Variations on a Jewish Liturgical Theme I
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: electronic and computer works, solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: any string, electronics, guitar
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Five mielismatic variations. Technically challenging.
Fantasy - Variations on a Jewish Liturgical Theme II
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: electronic and computer works, solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: electronics, guitar, tape
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Five mielismatic variations. Moderately difficult
Drie Liebesleider
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Three lovesongs in a light, flirtatious and romantic vein.
Seven Songs of Love and Sorrow
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Very melodious, lyrical songcycle.
Abendruhe mit sussem Traum
Year: 1996
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, cello, percussion, piano, timpani, vibraphone
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: A more dramatic, technically challenging version. Requires a virtuostic vibraphonist.
Six Times Solitude
Year: 1996
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: World Premiered Weill Hall, 1990, M. Chen, sop, R. Schonthal, pn. Text: A.A. Milne.
65 Celebrations
Year: 1994
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Instruments: organ, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: 65 Preludes, Interludes and Postinterludes in different keys for hte year round Church Holy Days. Duration from 40 seconds to 3 and a half minutes.
Soundtrack For A Dark Street (With Electric Guitar)
Year: 1994
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Description: perc, synth, strs (sections: vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb) Premiered Symphony Space, NYC, 1993, Manhattan Chamber Orch (augmented), R. Auldon Clark, cond.
Improvisation for Solo Cello
Year: 1994
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: cello
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Expressive concert piece written for viruoso cellists.
Die Mauer vorher und nachher (The Wall before and after)
Year: 1994
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: flute, percussion
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: pn, vln, vc, and narrator W/p 9/18/94: Galeriesaal des Kurpfalzischen Museums, Hiedelberg.
Improvisation For Clarinet & Piano
Year: 1993
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano
Abendruhe mit sussem Traum
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, cello, percussion, piano, vibraphone
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Nostalgic, tranquil, somewhat eerie with sudden appearances from fragmented, reharmonized "Der Lindenbaum" (Schubert).
Trompetengesange
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 17'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any brass, any medium voice, any string, any voice, cello, piano, trumpet, violin
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: An anti-war sentiment in the first movement progresses to a bluesy finale.
Bird Over Jerusalem
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 14'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any woodwind, electronics, flute, piano, tape
Description: Premiered Weill Hall, NY, Tadeo Coelho, flute, Joanne Polk, piano
String Quartet #2 ("In The Viennese Manner")
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 25'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered Int Congress of Women in Music, Paris, 1984, Crescent Quartet. Perfs Mexico City; Heidelberg; Mannheim.
Improvisation in Three Interconnected Sections
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: violin
Description: Technically Challenging, virtuostic and expressive concert piece.
Ode to a Departing Swan
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: violin
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Very accessible, melodious. Effective as an encore piece.
Homage A Garcia Lorca
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any high voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, flute, harp, percussion, timpani, viola
Description: Premiered Berlin, 1992.
Ingrid's Songs (Olbricht)
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): Ingrid'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: 4 songs, in German.
Bird's Song About
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): Bird'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered NYU, 1990, Robin Ambrogio, fl, Albert Zak, pn.
Self Portrait Of The Artist As An Older Woman
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;44'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.
Description: Rec Cambria (CD) M. Mills., Box 37, Lomita, CA 90717.
Evening Music, Night Fantasy With Ocean Waves
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: tu, perc, vib, hp, pn, 2+222+, vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb, tape of ocean-waves Premiered SUNY, Purchase, NY, New Orchestra of Westchester, P. Dunkel, cond.
Collages
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, bells, cello, clarinet, contrabass, electronics, flute, percussion, piano, soprano, synthesizer, timpani
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: drum, snaredrum, field drum From Das Knaben's Wunderhorn.
Toccata and Arietta
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Commissioned for the Renee B. Fisher Piano Competition. Brilliant and expressive recital piece for the young virtuoso.
Princess Maleen
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 45'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: synth, vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb Opera in 1 acts based on Grimm fairytale. Commissioned by Westchester Conservatory Music, Premiered White Plains Intermediate School, Conservatory Orch and chor, Elliot Megaziner, cond. Score for pn or DX-7 avail. Libretto: Ruth Schonthal and Wallis Wood
Sonata in Two Movements
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, cello, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Commissioned by Delta Omicron Fraternity. Premiered Bad Wildungen, Germany, March 1992.
Tempation Of St. Anthony
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 19'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano
Instruments: organ
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: premiered by 1st Presbyterian Ch, Greenwich, CT, 1990, R. Bouchett, org.
3 Celebrations "Happy Birthday Variations"
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: any string, contrabass, percussion
Publisher: Fine Arts Music
Description: Premiered New Orch of Westchester, P. Dunkel, cond, SUNY-Purchase. For Children's Concert.
Young Dead Soldiers (A. Mac Leish)
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 1'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.
Description: Chamber version Premiered Stadthalle Unna, 1986 Germany, C. Schumann Chor & Orch, M. Blankenberg, cond. Larger orch and chor Premiered SUNY, Purchase, NY, 1987, New Orch of Westchester, Westchester Chor Soc, Ossining Chor Soc, P. Dunkel, cond.
Operatic Cradle Song
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: alto, any low voice
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: text "The Blood Wedding," Lorca, in Spanish. Premiered Dumbarton Meth Ch, Washington, DC, B. Bramson, sop, A. Zia, al, R. Schonthal, pn.
Seven Times Solitude
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: 7 songs. Premiered CA, D. Kavish, sop. Text by A. A. Milne.
Canticles Of Hieronymos
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Commissioned/Premiered by National Gallery of Art, Wash, DC, Margaret Mills,pn. Perfs Florida, Heidelberg. Rec Cambria Rec. CD M. Mills.
From North And South Of The Border
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Youngtown Piano Encores
Description: Grade II-III for the older student; teaching material. Collection of pieces.
Inventions For Harpsichord
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Orig for harpsichord. Premiered Wash DC, G. Rank, pn. Perfs NY Cultural Center, Westchester Conservatory of Music."
Fourteen Inventions
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 28'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: 14 contrapuntal short works, inspired by Bach's two-part inventions, in a contemporary idiom.
Evocation
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: contrabass, percussion, viola
Publisher: Fine Arts Music
Description: vc, cb Premiered Rochester, NY, Orch of Rochester.
Beautiful Days Of Aranjuez
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: harp
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered Town Hall, NYC, 1983, S. Cutler, hp, Conn Chamber Orch, S. Stone, cond, other performed Westchester Symphony, S. Cutler, hp, M. Cannelakis, cond. performed Fleischer Coll, Philadelphia, PA.
Three Elegies
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: W/P Feb. 1982: The Westchester Conservatory of Music, White Plains, NY; R. Schonthal, p.
Fragments From A Woman's Diary
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): Woman'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.
Description: Premiered Ithaca Coll, R. Tobey,pn. performed by Merkin Hall, NYC, Heidelberg, Bonn. Rec Orion, G. Steigerwalt,"
Solitary Reaper
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, cello, flute, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Text by W. Wordsworth. Premiered Carnegie Hall, P. Sperry, ten, with NY Lyric Trio. Also performed Nat Acad Sc, Wash DC, C. Haeffner, sop, New World Players; Mercy Col, Dobbs Ferry, NY, NYU, Christ & St. Stephens, NYC.
Near And Far
Year: 1980
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Carl Fisher, Inc.
Description: Grade II, for the older student; teaching material.
Miniscules
Year: 1980
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Carl Fischer, Inc.
Description: Grade I, teaching material. "
Miniatures
Year: 1980
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: E. C. Schirmer
Description: 3 vols for Grade I, II, III; teaching material. Galaxy/
Bird Calls
Year: 1980
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interlude
Year: 1980
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: harp
Publisher: Sisra Press
Description: premiered by Dumbarton Meth Ch, Washington, DC, G. Cassat, hp.
Courtship Of Camilla
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 45'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: 2222 4332, perc, pn, vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb; or pn or synth - Unperformed. Opera in 1 or 2 acts. Text by A.A. Milne,
Music For Horn And Piano
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, orchestra and chamber orchestra, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo brass instrument, solo brass with piano, solo instrument other than piano, solo instrument with piano
Instruments: any brass, horn, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered La Guardia College, Queens, 1978, A. Goldstein, hn, R. Schonthal, pn.
In Homage Of...
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: 24 short preludes. Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, A. Chien,pn. Perfs Ithaca, NY, Los Angeles, Boston; Rec Orion G. Steigerwalt,"
Gestures
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;15'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.
Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, 1979, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Northridge, CA, Heidelberg, Germany.
Music For Horn & Chamber Orchestra
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: cello, contrabass, horn, viola
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered McMillan Theatre, 1980, Columbia Univ Orch, B. Tillitson, hn, D. Monson, cond. Rec members of Israeli Phil, R. Meir, hn, S. Ronly-Riklis, cond, Crystal Label #5673; also avail version for hn, pn.
Fantasia In A Nostalgic Mood
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: guitar
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: premiered by Carnegie Recital Hall, 1982, D. Starobin, guit.
Concerto #2 For Piano And Orchestra
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 36'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, tu, pn, 2 vln, vla, vc Very Pianistic; in the concerto tradition yet in an accessable contemporary idiom.
Songs Of Love And Sorrow
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: high v; Cycle of 7 songs, texts by Dickinson, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Browning, Houseman, Barrett-Browning. Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, B. Bramson, sop, R. Schonthal, pn. Dumbarton Meth Ch, Wash DC.
Sonata Concertante For Clarinet And Piano
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered College of New Rochelle, E. Lamneck, cl, G. Steigerwalt, pn. Rec LP Orion, E. Lamneck, cl, G. Steigerwalt, pn.
Four Epiphanies
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: viola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
By The Roadside
Year: 1975
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description: text: W. Whitman.
Loveletters For Clarinet And Cello
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet
Publisher: Sisra Press
Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, M. Kupferman, cl, D. Moore, vc. Perfs Christ & St. Stephens, NYC; German Embassy; National Gallery of Art. Rec Capriccio, E. Lamneck, cl, M. Rudiakov, vc.
Variations In Search Of A Theme
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description: Premiered 5th Ave. Presbyterian Ch, NYC, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Berlin, Heidelberg, Mexico City, Sidney. Rec LP Orion.
Nachklange (Reverberations)
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, R. Schonthal.
Sonata Concertante For Viola And Piano
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, piano, viola
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, B. Seckel, va, R. Schonthal, pn. Perfs Wigmore Hall, London; St. Michaels Ch, NYC; Heidelberg.
Sonata Concertante For Cello And Piano
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, cello, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered Hofheim, Germany, M. Neumann, vc, J. Stein, pn; recorded Orion M. Neumann, vc, J. Stein, pn.
Sonatensatz
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Premiered Juilliard, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Wigmore Hall, 92nd St. Y, NYC, Carnegie Recital Hall. Rec LP Orion, G. Steigerwalt. MS facsimile only." Furore- Verlag
Sonata Breve
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;20'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Premiered Juilliard, NYC, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Carnegie Recital Hall, Wigmore Hall, Heidelberg, Holheim, Cologne. Rec Orion G. Steigerwalt," Furore- Verlag
Sonata Quasi un 'Improvisazione'
Year: 1964
Duration (in minutes): 39;Improvisazione&
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Premiered College of New Rochelle, R. Schonthal, pn.
Preludes In Blue
Year: 1963
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: MS facsimile only.
Totengesange
Year: 1963
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Almost "Schoenbergian", challenging cycle for both artists.
Totengesange (Songs Of Death)
Year: 1963
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Cycle of 6 songs. Text by R. Schonthal, in German. Premiered Carnegie R H, NYC, 1964, B. Beardslee, sop, Schontal, pn.. Perfs CRHall, B. Bramson, National Arts Club, H. Lightner, Wigmore, Nendick, S. Lawrence, Rowe. Rec Leonarda, B. Bramson, sop, R. Schonthal, pn.
Sonata For Violin & Piano
Year: 1962
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, violin
Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, S. Monosoff, vn, R. Schonthal, pn. Perfs: College of New Rochelle; Ithaca, NY; Mannheim; Cologne; Bonn.
String Quartet #1
Year: 1962
Duration (in minutes): 14'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: 13 brief continuous movements. Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, 1964, York Quartet. Rec Leonarda, Crescent Quartet.
Fiestas Y Danzas
Year: 1961
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC, H. Stessin,pn, 196. Rec Leonarda CD, N. Kaplan Solomon.
Sonata in E
Year: 1961
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, piano, violin
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: A "conversational" first movement, a very expressive second and a rousing finale make this a fine recital piece in the conservative modern vein.
Transposed Heads
Year: 1951
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera
Description: Pal. del Ballas Artes, Mexico City, Orquesta Sinfonica de la Universidad P. Moncayo, M. Montoya, choreographer.
Nine Lyric-Dramatic Songs
Year: 1949
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: cello, mezzo soprano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: 2, va, vc, cb also version with pn; text: W.B. Yeats.
Sonata In E Flat
Year: 1947
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Premiered Yale Univ, 198, R. Schonthal,pn."
Early Songs
Year: 1946
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Southern Music
Four Songs
Year: 1943
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Southern Music
Two Songs
Year: 1943
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: low or med v; in Spanish. Words by Fed. Garcia Lorca. Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes, Mexico, J. Aguilar, sop.
Concerto Romantico
Year: 1942
Duration (in minutes): 36'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: concertos
Description: Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes Mexico City, 1943, Orch de la Universidad, J. Rocabruna, cond, R. Schonthal, pn. Perusal score.
3 Songs With Words By Li Po
Year: 1942
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, soprano
Description: med v; in German. Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes, Mex City, 1942, J. Aguilar, sop.
Songs With Words By R.M. Rilke
Year: 1942
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: high or med v; in German. Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes, Mexico City, 1941, J. Aguilar, sop. Perfs Times Hall, NYC, Wash. DC, Heidelberg.
Sonata In A
Year: 1939
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Premiered Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm. (P. Lundberg, Stockholm.) Furore- Verlag
Japanese Sketches
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: 3 books, for Junior, Lower Intermediate, and Intermediate. Descriptive, very poetic imaginative pieces using pentatonic scales in many different keys, bitonality and interesting textures.
Heidelberger Fanfare with Variations
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Written for the 500th Anniversary of the City of Heidelberg. Eleven short pianistic variations based on the letters Hedebeg.
Educational Piano Music (Collections)
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Sisra Press
Description: For grade 1-2.
Final Asencion
Year: 1999
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
From the Life of a Pious Woman
Year: 1999
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Tristana
Year: 1999
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, piano, violin
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Comissioned by the Heidelberger Festival Ensamble; w/p 7-10-99.
Bells of Sarajevo
Year: 1997
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: For virtuoso clarinetists. Passages fingered with harmonics. Hauntingly evocative concert piece.
Jocasta
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 45'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: A post modern opera in 2 axts. Text by Helene Cicoux. Score for piano or synth. Commissioned by Voice and Vision, dire, by Marya Mazor.
Divertimenti for Diverse Instruments for Young Virtuosi
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind quartet
Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, clarinet, flute, horn
Description: 3 tpt, pn, 2 vln, vla, vc, drums For diverse groups of 2-4 students. Small pieces of 2-8 minutes. For grades 3-5.
String Quartet no. 3 (Holocaust in Memoriam)
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Anguish, and supplication expressed in multi-layered swirls of sound using the "Jewish" scale in bitonal ways; a last cry for help from God ending in dispair.
Wildunger Liederzyklus
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any medium voice, any voice, mezzo soprano, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Highly expressive, serious, challenging songs.
Fantasy - Variations on a Jewish Liturgical Theme
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: guitar
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Five mielismatic variations. Modified version of "Theme I".
Fantasy - Variations on a Jewish Liturgical Theme I
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: electronic and computer works, solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: any string, electronics, guitar
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Five mielismatic variations. Technically challenging.
Fantasy - Variations on a Jewish Liturgical Theme II
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: electronic and computer works, solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: electronics, guitar, tape
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Five mielismatic variations. Moderately difficult
Drie Liebesleider
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Three lovesongs in a light, flirtatious and romantic vein.
Seven Songs of Love and Sorrow
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Very melodious, lyrical songcycle.
Abendruhe mit sussem Traum
Year: 1996
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, cello, percussion, piano, timpani, vibraphone
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: A more dramatic, technically challenging version. Requires a virtuostic vibraphonist.
Six Times Solitude
Year: 1996
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: World Premiered Weill Hall, 1990, M. Chen, sop, R. Schonthal, pn. Text: A.A. Milne.
65 Celebrations
Year: 1994
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Instruments: organ, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: 65 Preludes, Interludes and Postinterludes in different keys for hte year round Church Holy Days. Duration from 40 seconds to 3 and a half minutes.
Soundtrack For A Dark Street (With Electric Guitar)
Year: 1994
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Description: perc, synth, strs (sections: vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb) Premiered Symphony Space, NYC, 1993, Manhattan Chamber Orch (augmented), R. Auldon Clark, cond.
Improvisation for Solo Cello
Year: 1994
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: cello
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Expressive concert piece written for viruoso cellists.
Die Mauer vorher und nachher (The Wall before and after)
Year: 1994
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: flute, percussion
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: pn, vln, vc, and narrator W/p 9/18/94: Galeriesaal des Kurpfalzischen Museums, Hiedelberg.
Improvisation For Clarinet & Piano
Year: 1993
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano
Abendruhe mit sussem Traum
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, cello, percussion, piano, vibraphone
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Nostalgic, tranquil, somewhat eerie with sudden appearances from fragmented, reharmonized "Der Lindenbaum" (Schubert).
Trompetengesange
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 17'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any brass, any medium voice, any string, any voice, cello, piano, trumpet, violin
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: An anti-war sentiment in the first movement progresses to a bluesy finale.
Bird Over Jerusalem
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 14'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any woodwind, electronics, flute, piano, tape
Description: Premiered Weill Hall, NY, Tadeo Coelho, flute, Joanne Polk, piano
String Quartet #2 ("In The Viennese Manner")
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 25'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered Int Congress of Women in Music, Paris, 1984, Crescent Quartet. Perfs Mexico City; Heidelberg; Mannheim.
Improvisation in Three Interconnected Sections
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: violin
Description: Technically Challenging, virtuostic and expressive concert piece.
Ode to a Departing Swan
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: violin
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Very accessible, melodious. Effective as an encore piece.
Homage A Garcia Lorca
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any high voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, flute, harp, percussion, timpani, viola
Description: Premiered Berlin, 1992.
Ingrid's Songs (Olbricht)
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): Ingrid'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: 4 songs, in German.
Bird's Song About
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): Bird'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered NYU, 1990, Robin Ambrogio, fl, Albert Zak, pn.
Self Portrait Of The Artist As An Older Woman
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;44'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.
Description: Rec Cambria (CD) M. Mills., Box 37, Lomita, CA 90717.
Evening Music, Night Fantasy With Ocean Waves
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: tu, perc, vib, hp, pn, 2+222+, vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb, tape of ocean-waves Premiered SUNY, Purchase, NY, New Orchestra of Westchester, P. Dunkel, cond.
Collages
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, bells, cello, clarinet, contrabass, electronics, flute, percussion, piano, soprano, synthesizer, timpani
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: drum, snaredrum, field drum From Das Knaben's Wunderhorn.
Toccata and Arietta
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Commissioned for the Renee B. Fisher Piano Competition. Brilliant and expressive recital piece for the young virtuoso.
Princess Maleen
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 45'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: synth, vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb Opera in 1 acts based on Grimm fairytale. Commissioned by Westchester Conservatory Music, Premiered White Plains Intermediate School, Conservatory Orch and chor, Elliot Megaziner, cond. Score for pn or DX-7 avail. Libretto: Ruth Schonthal and Wallis Wood
Sonata in Two Movements
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, cello, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Commissioned by Delta Omicron Fraternity. Premiered Bad Wildungen, Germany, March 1992.
Tempation Of St. Anthony
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 19'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano
Instruments: organ
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: premiered by 1st Presbyterian Ch, Greenwich, CT, 1990, R. Bouchett, org.
3 Celebrations "Happy Birthday Variations"
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: any string, contrabass, percussion
Publisher: Fine Arts Music
Description: Premiered New Orch of Westchester, P. Dunkel, cond, SUNY-Purchase. For Children's Concert.
Young Dead Soldiers (A. Mac Leish)
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 1'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.
Description: Chamber version Premiered Stadthalle Unna, 1986 Germany, C. Schumann Chor & Orch, M. Blankenberg, cond. Larger orch and chor Premiered SUNY, Purchase, NY, 1987, New Orch of Westchester, Westchester Chor Soc, Ossining Chor Soc, P. Dunkel, cond.
Operatic Cradle Song
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: alto, any low voice
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: text "The Blood Wedding," Lorca, in Spanish. Premiered Dumbarton Meth Ch, Washington, DC, B. Bramson, sop, A. Zia, al, R. Schonthal, pn.
Seven Times Solitude
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: 7 songs. Premiered CA, D. Kavish, sop. Text by A. A. Milne.
Canticles Of Hieronymos
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Commissioned/Premiered by National Gallery of Art, Wash, DC, Margaret Mills,pn. Perfs Florida, Heidelberg. Rec Cambria Rec. CD M. Mills.
From North And South Of The Border
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Youngtown Piano Encores
Description: Grade II-III for the older student; teaching material. Collection of pieces.
Inventions For Harpsichord
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Orig for harpsichord. Premiered Wash DC, G. Rank, pn. Perfs NY Cultural Center, Westchester Conservatory of Music."
Fourteen Inventions
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 28'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: 14 contrapuntal short works, inspired by Bach's two-part inventions, in a contemporary idiom.
Evocation
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: contrabass, percussion, viola
Publisher: Fine Arts Music
Description: vc, cb Premiered Rochester, NY, Orch of Rochester.
Beautiful Days Of Aranjuez
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: harp
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered Town Hall, NYC, 1983, S. Cutler, hp, Conn Chamber Orch, S. Stone, cond, other performed Westchester Symphony, S. Cutler, hp, M. Cannelakis, cond. performed Fleischer Coll, Philadelphia, PA.
Three Elegies
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: W/P Feb. 1982: The Westchester Conservatory of Music, White Plains, NY; R. Schonthal, p.
Fragments From A Woman's Diary
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): Woman'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.
Description: Premiered Ithaca Coll, R. Tobey,pn. performed by Merkin Hall, NYC, Heidelberg, Bonn. Rec Orion, G. Steigerwalt,"
Solitary Reaper
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, cello, flute, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Text by W. Wordsworth. Premiered Carnegie Hall, P. Sperry, ten, with NY Lyric Trio. Also performed Nat Acad Sc, Wash DC, C. Haeffner, sop, New World Players; Mercy Col, Dobbs Ferry, NY, NYU, Christ & St. Stephens, NYC.
Near And Far
Year: 1980
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Carl Fisher, Inc.
Description: Grade II, for the older student; teaching material.
Miniscules
Year: 1980
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Carl Fischer, Inc.
Description: Grade I, teaching material. "
Miniatures
Year: 1980
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: E. C. Schirmer
Description: 3 vols for Grade I, II, III; teaching material. Galaxy/
Bird Calls
Year: 1980
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interlude
Year: 1980
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: harp
Publisher: Sisra Press
Description: premiered by Dumbarton Meth Ch, Washington, DC, G. Cassat, hp.
Courtship Of Camilla
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 45'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: 2222 4332, perc, pn, vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb; or pn or synth - Unperformed. Opera in 1 or 2 acts. Text by A.A. Milne,
Music For Horn And Piano
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, orchestra and chamber orchestra, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo brass instrument, solo brass with piano, solo instrument other than piano, solo instrument with piano
Instruments: any brass, horn, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered La Guardia College, Queens, 1978, A. Goldstein, hn, R. Schonthal, pn.
In Homage Of...
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: 24 short preludes. Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, A. Chien,pn. Perfs Ithaca, NY, Los Angeles, Boston; Rec Orion G. Steigerwalt,"
Gestures
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;15'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.
Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, 1979, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Northridge, CA, Heidelberg, Germany.
Music For Horn & Chamber Orchestra
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: cello, contrabass, horn, viola
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered McMillan Theatre, 1980, Columbia Univ Orch, B. Tillitson, hn, D. Monson, cond. Rec members of Israeli Phil, R. Meir, hn, S. Ronly-Riklis, cond, Crystal Label #5673; also avail version for hn, pn.
Fantasia In A Nostalgic Mood
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: guitar
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: premiered by Carnegie Recital Hall, 1982, D. Starobin, guit.
Concerto #2 For Piano And Orchestra
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 36'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, tu, pn, 2 vln, vla, vc Very Pianistic; in the concerto tradition yet in an accessable contemporary idiom.
Songs Of Love And Sorrow
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: high v; Cycle of 7 songs, texts by Dickinson, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Browning, Houseman, Barrett-Browning. Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, B. Bramson, sop, R. Schonthal, pn. Dumbarton Meth Ch, Wash DC.
Sonata Concertante For Clarinet And Piano
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered College of New Rochelle, E. Lamneck, cl, G. Steigerwalt, pn. Rec LP Orion, E. Lamneck, cl, G. Steigerwalt, pn.
Four Epiphanies
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: viola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
By The Roadside
Year: 1975
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description: text: W. Whitman.
Loveletters For Clarinet And Cello
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet
Publisher: Sisra Press
Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, M. Kupferman, cl, D. Moore, vc. Perfs Christ & St. Stephens, NYC; German Embassy; National Gallery of Art. Rec Capriccio, E. Lamneck, cl, M. Rudiakov, vc.
Variations In Search Of A Theme
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description: Premiered 5th Ave. Presbyterian Ch, NYC, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Berlin, Heidelberg, Mexico City, Sidney. Rec LP Orion.
Nachklange (Reverberations)
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, R. Schonthal.
Sonata Concertante For Viola And Piano
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, piano, viola
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, B. Seckel, va, R. Schonthal, pn. Perfs Wigmore Hall, London; St. Michaels Ch, NYC; Heidelberg.
Sonata Concertante For Cello And Piano
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, cello, piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered Hofheim, Germany, M. Neumann, vc, J. Stein, pn; recorded Orion M. Neumann, vc, J. Stein, pn.
Sonatensatz
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Premiered Juilliard, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Wigmore Hall, 92nd St. Y, NYC, Carnegie Recital Hall. Rec LP Orion, G. Steigerwalt. MS facsimile only." Furore- Verlag
Sonata Breve
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;20'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Premiered Juilliard, NYC, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Carnegie Recital Hall, Wigmore Hall, Heidelberg, Holheim, Cologne. Rec Orion G. Steigerwalt," Furore- Verlag
Sonata Quasi un 'Improvisazione'
Year: 1964
Duration (in minutes): 39;Improvisazione&
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Premiered College of New Rochelle, R. Schonthal, pn.
Preludes In Blue
Year: 1963
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: MS facsimile only.
Totengesange
Year: 1963
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Almost "Schoenbergian", challenging cycle for both artists.
Totengesange (Songs Of Death)
Year: 1963
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Cycle of 6 songs. Text by R. Schonthal, in German. Premiered Carnegie R H, NYC, 1964, B. Beardslee, sop, Schontal, pn.. Perfs CRHall, B. Bramson, National Arts Club, H. Lightner, Wigmore, Nendick, S. Lawrence, Rowe. Rec Leonarda, B. Bramson, sop, R. Schonthal, pn.
Sonata For Violin & Piano
Year: 1962
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, violin
Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, S. Monosoff, vn, R. Schonthal, pn. Perfs: College of New Rochelle; Ithaca, NY; Mannheim; Cologne; Bonn.
String Quartet #1
Year: 1962
Duration (in minutes): 14'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: 13 brief continuous movements. Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, 1964, York Quartet. Rec Leonarda, Crescent Quartet.
Fiestas Y Danzas
Year: 1961
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC, H. Stessin,pn, 196. Rec Leonarda CD, N. Kaplan Solomon.
Sonata in E
Year: 1961
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, piano, violin
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: A "conversational" first movement, a very expressive second and a rousing finale make this a fine recital piece in the conservative modern vein.
Transposed Heads
Year: 1951
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera
Description: Pal. del Ballas Artes, Mexico City, Orquesta Sinfonica de la Universidad P. Moncayo, M. Montoya, choreographer.
Nine Lyric-Dramatic Songs
Year: 1949
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: cello, mezzo soprano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: 2, va, vc, cb also version with pn; text: W.B. Yeats.
Sonata In E Flat
Year: 1947
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Premiered Yale Univ, 198, R. Schonthal,pn."
Early Songs
Year: 1946
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Southern Music
Four Songs
Year: 1943
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Southern Music
Two Songs
Year: 1943
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: low or med v; in Spanish. Words by Fed. Garcia Lorca. Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes, Mexico, J. Aguilar, sop.
Concerto Romantico
Year: 1942
Duration (in minutes): 36'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: concertos
Description: Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes Mexico City, 1943, Orch de la Universidad, J. Rocabruna, cond, R. Schonthal, pn. Perusal score.
3 Songs With Words By Li Po
Year: 1942
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, soprano
Description: med v; in German. Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes, Mex City, 1942, J. Aguilar, sop.
Songs With Words By R.M. Rilke
Year: 1942
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: high or med v; in German. Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes, Mexico City, 1941, J. Aguilar, sop. Perfs Times Hall, NYC, Wash. DC, Heidelberg.
Sonata In A
Year: 1939
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Premiered Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm. (P. Lundberg, Stockholm.) Furore- Verlag
Japanese Sketches
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: 3 books, for Junior, Lower Intermediate, and Intermediate. Descriptive, very poetic imaginative pieces using pentatonic scales in many different keys, bitonality and interesting textures.
Heidelberger Fanfare with Variations
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Furore-Verlag
Description: Written for the 500th Anniversary of the City of Heidelberg. Eleven short pianistic variations based on the letters Hedebeg.
Educational Piano Music (Collections)
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Sisra Press
Description: For grade 1-2.